The Lord is helping TWR-KZN to focus where His heart is – going deeper through research on problems youth are facing, ministering more specifically to children in dire need, and widen their reach to Indian communities.

Research on unplanned pregnancies

More than 99 000 schoolgirls fell pregnant in 2013 – a rate of about 271 girls for every day of that year. The highest percentage occurred in KwaZulu-Natal.

TWR-KZN started its own research last year to understand the pressure school girls are under and how tohelp them stay pure until they are married. This is indeed a daunting task, but Zoe Gwala and her team are confident that the Lord will show the way and help them to instill in girls God’s moral principles and His heart for them.

Many thousands of TWR Africa’s listeners across our continent can attest that Dr. J Vernon McGee’s “Thru the Bible” programmes have meant more to them in learning and understanding God’s Word than has any other source of Biblical training!

What makes this immensely popular Bible teaching series so phenomenal is that the same in-depth study heard by listeners in North America each week is also heard by millions of people around the world in more than 100 different languages. Decades after Dr. McGee’s passing, his programmes continue day-by-day to inspire and disciple listeners around the world towards a better and systematic understanding of the God of the Bible. For millions of African listeners, Thru the Bible may be the only systematic Bible study they will ever receive.

“I've been 20 years married to a man with whom I had no communication and who was an alcoholic. Many things happened that drove us away from each other. Between us there was a lack of respect, infidelity and a lack of love.

But about five years ago, I received Jesus into my heart, and he did the same a year later.

“But things got worse because we were not faithful to the Lord. I had been listening to you for three years on Radio Nueva Vida and then online on my phone.

A coordinator with Project Hannah, TWR’s global women’s ministry, passed along the moving story of Ayaan, who was born to Somali Christian parents living in Ethiopia but adopted by another Somali family. The adoptive parents raised her in a different faith.

Ayaan (not her real name) married a man in Ethiopia and emigrated to the United States. The couple had two children but eventually divorced because her in-laws never accepted her. She became depressed and thought several times about killing herself after finding no solace in the religion she had been brought up to follow.